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VANCOUVER — Severe anxiety is three to four times more common than depression during pregnancy and early motherhood, according to newly published research from the University of British Columbia.
Psychologist Nichole Fairbrother led a team that studied 310 pregnant women in Metro Vancouver from 2007 to 2010. They filled out a questionnaire on their mental health, and that was followed by in-depth interviews with 115 of them.

Some doctors balk at the idea of trying to change a patient's personality, but a new study suggests that they're doing it already. The results show that talk therapy or psychiatric medications can change personality in healthy people and those with psychological disorders.

It is no secret that US healthcare corporations have been among, if not the biggest beneficiaries of Obamacare: by "socializing" costs and spreading the reimbursement pool over the entire population in the form of a tax, pharmaceutical companies have been able to boost medical product and service costs to unprecedented levels with the help of complicit insurance companies who have subsequently passed through these costs to the consumer, in the process sending the price of biotech and pharma stocks to levels not seen since the dot com bubble.